Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A new breed of memory device could keep the decades-long speedup in computer power going for decades longer, researchers say.

[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:43:42 GMT]
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Gilligan might have gotten off that island a lot sooner if shape-shifting robot planes had been around.

[Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:39:49 GMT]
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Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 23:28:10 GMT]
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Technology developed to prolong the lives of robotic probes on the moon and Mars is being tested for a new use on Earth: keeping solar panels dust-free.

[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:29 GMT]
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The Magna Carta helped form the foundation for modern English and U.S. law. Now one of two copies known to exist outside England is headed for a special new case to preserve it.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:36:50 GMT]
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A highly-promoted feature in the 2011 Ford Explorer are its new inflatable rear seat belts. The not-so-highly-promoted working stiffs that helped make it happen? Human cadavers. Here's how automakers still quietly use dead people to make your car safer.

[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:39:55 GMT]
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As the plight of the trapped miners in Chile wears on, rescuers will rely on a number of technologies to keep the 33 men alive until they can be freed from nearly half a mile down ? a process that could take several months.
[Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:00:46 GMT]
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Although they won?t attain field readiness in time to help workers trapped by the mine collapse in Chile, a number of new technologies will enter service in the next few years that could drastically increase mine collapse survival rates. These technologies differ in their use, but all use advanced sensors to help miners locate fallen colleagues, alert rescue teams and flee to safety.
[Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:51:00 GMT]
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Nike has filed a patent for a self-lacing shoe that resembles the sneakers from "Back to the Future 2" so closely, one has to wonder whether a hover-board and flux capacitor could be far behind.

[Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:16:39 GMT]
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"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice?but by chance. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations.
[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:02:16 GMT]
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More detailed pictures of the processes that continuously reshape the Earth from the inside out are being generated by new, more sophisticated computer models, yielding new insights into the hidden world beneath our feet.

[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:36:04 GMT]
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Researchers at MIT have created a fleet of robots that can cruise the ocean and clean up surface oil slicks.  The system, called Seaswarm, is a group of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil spills both less expensive and more efficient than current skimming methods.
[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:23:01 GMT]
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An electricity-generating fuel-cell system known as the Bloom Box sparked a huge buzz in the energy debate six months ago ? and since then, still more ventures have surfaced to promise better living through chemistry.

[Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:22:08 GMT]
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Batteries, built by viruses, could someday be sprayed onto military uniforms as wearable power sources.
[Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:59:06 GMT]
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Diamond sheets filled with holes could be the key to the next generation of supercomputers.

[Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:13:11 GMT]
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